Category Archives: rant

Zoom Support Warning

Posted on 2020/06/16 by

This is a courtesy announcement for any followers or vistors about Zoom Support.

Zoom Support is, from the evidence so far, non-existent
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USB-A for Apple Magic Mouse – Apple, you’ve GOT to be joking!

Posted on 2020/01/31 by

I have just bought a Magic Mouse 2. I bought my Mac Book Pro in 2016. The instructions in th MM2 say “To Pair you mouse with your Mac, use the Lightning to USB cable that came with your Mouse”. … Continue reading →

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MS Community Robot Finds Word Tables Offensive

Posted on 2018/12/04 by

I posted this question on the Micsoft Community board and in the course of the following discussion, I posted this picture of a MS Table with the Language incorrectly set. But suddenly, it was removed from my discussion.  Replaced by … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, opinion, rant

Why have WordPress made it soooo hard to follow someone?

Posted on 2018/03/23 by

 I won’t start a tirade of things you STILL can’t do on WP, but I am going to have a whinge about one feature you have obscured. Continue reading →

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Conditional Page Break in MS Word

Posted on 2016/07/24 by

Background For many years I have put up with using MS Word’s Insert | Break | Section Break (Odd Page) (now Layout | Breaks | Section Breaks | Odd Page in Word 2016) to force a page break when you want … Continue reading →

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I Bought a MS Surface Book, so now I’m really P…d off with Apple

Posted on 2016/01/15 by

Because if Apple had kept up its history of innovation in Personal Computers, Apple Laptops would now be shipping with touch-screens and stylus pencils. Continue reading →

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WordPress Changed their editor – and it sucks

Posted on 2014/08/17 by

Welcome to the keyhole. Trying to edit/create a blog post using WordPress just got harder (as if it wasn’t hard enough already!) When I go to create a page, the first thing you notice is that you have to edit … Continue reading →

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Damn you Microsoft and your forced reboot! HOW DARE YOU!

Posted on 2013/04/04 by

I’ve just lost 30mins (at least) of work.  I was was in the middle of doing a complicated install of a virtual machine (I was installing FreeBSD on a QEMU virtual machine) and documenting each step.  All of a sudden, … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, opinion, rant, Windows 8 | 4 Comments

CCNA Certification Changes 2013 Summary

Posted on 2013/04/03 by

On 26 March 2013, Cisco announced new CCNA certifications.. Here is my interpretation of the changes. In a nutshell ICND1 is now considerably harder, absorbing much of the ICND2 content (IPv6, ACLs, VLANs and OSPF) while ICND2 seems to be … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 Install – What a ridiculous product key

Posted on 2013/01/08 by

Not Happy. Since I have a Mac, I had to buy the System Builder version of Windows 8 to legally run it in a Virtual Machine. I don’t have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with … Continue reading →

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